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Clinton Offers North Korea a Peace Map

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Brenda Cronin

Updated Feb. 14, 2009 11:59 p.m. ET

NEW YORK -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton mapped out an ambitious foreign-policy objective for President Obama's administration, pledging aid to North Korea if Pyongyang agrees to abandon its nuclear program.

"If North Korea is genuinely prepared to completely and verifiably eliminate their nuclear-weapons program, the Obama administration will be willing to normalize bilateral relations and replace the peninsula's long-standing armistice agreement with a permanent peace treaty...," said Mrs. Clinton, in her...